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Mirrorlink works only with GoogleMaps

bit-ya — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 10:21:57 GMT

Hello team!
I've just got Z5 Dual and try to connect to my car multimedia (Alpine ICS-X8) via Mirrorlink. The connection gets established quickly. But only one application works while connected - GoogleMaps. Closing GoogleMaps closes the connection as well. I think it is not correct, as the Mirrorlink protocol supposed to be agnostic to application running on a phone: it should just - yes - "mirror" the application.

The same Alpine unit worked fine with Nokia N7 phone.

Could you suggest what can I do with the phone, so the car multimedia unit shows other applications, not just GoogleMaps?

Android 6.0.1

assembly version 32.2.A.0.253

Thank you!

Re: Mirrorlink works only with GoogleMaps

Rickard — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 10:32:02 GMT

Hi,

To work with MirrorLink, the app must be MirrorLink enabled. I'm afraid not all apps works with MirrorLink.

For more information and a list of apps, see this link: http://www.mirrorlink.com/apps

Re: Mirrorlink works only with GoogleMaps

bit-ya — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:20:04 GMT

Thank you for the answer. I will try a few apps from the list you shared, hoping that will work.

At the same time, Nokia phone was replicated "one-to-one" on car multimedia display - messages, cartoons, navigation apps, AngryBirds: all that stuff was reproduced without a problem. I doubt it was Nokia policy to host only "Mirrorlink-enabled" applications. ))

Re: Mirrorlink works only with GoogleMaps

Rickard — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 12:07:17 GMT

Great, i hope you'll find the apps you need there.

I haven't seen that before but i'm not familiar with the operating system used in Nokia N7. It must work differently compared to Android in this regard. As i understand it, this is because MirrorLink ensures that apps used while driving conform to industry guidelines for minimizing driver distraction.